William Shakespeare Quotes
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For grief is crowned with consolation.
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Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways.
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If ever thou shalt love, In the sweet pangs of it remember me; For such as I am all true lovers are, Unstaid and skittish in all motions else Save in the constant image of the creature That is beloved.
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Take you me for a sponge?
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Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve ... the more merit in your bounty.
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Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love.
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It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
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Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.
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Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.
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On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.
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Demand me nothing: what you know, you know.
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I cannot speak your england.
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Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.
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Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel? Polonius: By the mass, and ‘tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius: It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet: Or like a whale? Polonius: Very like a whale.
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A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm
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If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.
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A sympathy in choice.
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There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.
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And all my mother came into mine eyes And gave me up to tears.
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It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.
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A noble shalt thou have, and present pay; And liquor likewise will I give to thee, And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood.
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Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.
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Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream
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I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting